Life of Daniel Boone, The Great Western Hunter and Pioneer | Page 2

Boone and Squire
Boone in the wilderness--Squire returns to North Carolina, obtains a
fresh supply of ammunition, and again rejoins his brother at the old
camp--Daniel Boone's own account of this remarkable period of his
life--His return to North Carolina--His determination to settle in
Kentucky--Other Western adventurers--the Long hunters--Washington
in Kentucky--Bullitt's party--Floyd's party--Thompson's survey--First
settlement of Tennessee.

CHAPTER VI.
Daniel Boone remains two years in North Carolina after his return from
the West--He prepares to emigrate to Kentucky--Character of the early

settlers to Kentucky--The first class, hunters--The second class, small
farmers--The third class, men of wealth and government officers.

CHAPTER VII.
Daniel Boone sets out for Kentucky with his family and his brother,
Squire Boone--Is joined by five families and forty men at Powell's
Valley--The party is attacked by Indians, and Daniel Boone's oldest son
is killed--The party return to the settlements on Clinch River--Boone, at
the request of Governor Dunmore, goes to the West and conducts a
party of surveyors to Virginia--Boone receives the command of three
garrisons and the commission of Captain--He takes a part in the
Dunmore war--Battle of Point Pleasant and termination of the war.

CHAPTER VIII.
The militia discharged--Captain Boone returns to his
family--Henderson's company--Various companies of emigrants to
Kentucky--Bounty lands--Harrod's party builds the first log-cabin
erected in Kentucky, and founds Harrodsburg--Proceedings of
Henderson's company--Agency of Captain Boone--He leads a company
to open a road to Kentucky River--Conflicts with the Indians--Captain
Boone founds Boonesborough--His own account of this
expedition--His letter to Henderson--Account of Colonel Henderson
and the Transylvania Company--Failure of the scheme--Probability of
Boone having been several years in the service of Henderson.

CHAPTER IX.
Description of the Old Fort at Boonesborough--Usual methods of
fortifications against the Indians--Arrival of more settlers at

Boonesborough--Captain Boone returns to the Clinch River to bring
out his family--He enlists new emigrants and starts for
Kentucky--Reinforced by a large party at Powel's Valley--Arrival at
Boonesborough--Arrival of many new settlers at Boonesborough and
Harrod's settlement--Arrival of Kenton, Floyd, the McAfees, and other
distinguished persons--Arrival of Colonel Richard Callaway.

CHAPTER X.
Disturbed state of the country in 1775--Breaking out of the
Revolutionary war--Exposed situation of the Kentucky
settlements--Hostility of the Indians excited by the British--First
political convention in the West--Capture of Boone's daughter and the
daughters of Colonel Callaway by the Indians--Their rescue by a party
led by Boone and Callaway--Increased caution of the colonists at
Boonesborough--Alarm and desertion of the Colonies in the West by
land speculators and other adventurers--A reinforcement of forty-five
men from North Carolina arrive at Boonesborough--Indian attack on
Boonesborough in April--Another attack in July--Attack on Logan's
Fort, and siege--Attack on Harrodsburg.

CHAPTER XI.
Arrival of George Rogers Clark in Kentucky--Anecdote of his
conversation with Ray--Clark and Jones chosen as delegates for the
Colonies to the Virginia Legislature--Clark's important services in
obtaining a political organization for Kentucky, and an abundant supply
of gunpowder from the government of Virginia--Great labor and
difficulty in bringing the powder to Harrodstown--Clark's expedition
against Kaskaskias--Surprise and capture of their fort--Perilous and
difficult march to Vincennes--Surprise and capture of that
place--Extension of the Virginian settlements--Erection of Fort
Jefferson.

CHAPTER XII.
Scarcity of salt at Boonesborough--Boone goes to Blue Licks to make
salt, and is captured by the Indians--Taken to Chilicothe--Affects
contentment, and deceives the Indians--Taken to Detroit--Kindness of
the British officers to him--Returns to Chilicothe--Adopted into an
Indian family--Ceremonies of adoption--Boone sees a large force of
Indians destined to attack Boonesborough--Escapes, and gives the
alarm, and strengthens the fortifications at Boonesborough--News of
delay by the Indians on account of Boone's escape--Boone goes on an
expedition to the Scioto--Has a fight with a party of Indians--Returns to
Boonesborough, which is immediately besieged by Captain Duquesne
with five hundred Indians--Summons to surrender--Time
gained--Attack commenced--Brave defense--Mines and
countermines--Siege raised--Boone brings his family once more back
to Boonesborough, and resumes farming.

CHAPTER XIII.
Captain Boone tried by court-martial--Honorably acquitted and
promoted--Loses a large sum of money--His losses by law-suits and
disputes about land--Defeat of Colonel Rogers's party--Colonel
Bowman's expedition to Chilicothe--Arrival near the town--Colonel
Logan attacks the town--Ordered by Colonel Bowman to
retreat--Failure of the expedition--Consequences to Bowman and to
Logan.

CHAPTER XIV.
Invasion of Kentucky by Captain Byrd's party--He captures the
garrisons at Ruddle's Station and Martin's Fort--Colonel Clark's

invasion of the Indian country--He ravages the Indian
towns--Adventure of Alexander McConnell--Skirmish at
Pickaway--Result of the expedition--Boone goes to the Blue Licks with
his brother--Attacked by the Indians--Boone's brother killed--Boone
promoted to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel--Clark's galley--Squire
Boone's Station removed to Bear's Creek--Attack by the
Indians--Colonel Floyd's defeat--Affair of the McAfees--Attack on
McAfee's Station repelled--Fort Jefferson evacuated--Attack on
Montgomery Station--Rescue by General Logan.

CHAPTER XV.
News of Cornwallis's surrender--Its effects--Captain Estill's
defeat--Grand army of Indians raised for the conquest of
Kentucky--Simon Girty's speech--Attack on Hoy's Station--Investment
of Bryant's Station--Expedient of the besieged